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Brian McCollum Detroit Free Press Published 10:19 p.m. UTC Jul 27, 2018 Greta Van Fleet put another notch on its belt Thursday, making a late-night television premiere as the hot-buzzing young Michigan band continues its rock ascension. The Detroit-based four-piece drew a standing ovation on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" for its performance of "When the Curtain Falls," on the heels of the song's official single release last week. Deploying its own concert lighting on the NBC-TV show, Greta Van Fleet — brothers Josh, Jake and Sam Kiszka, along with drummer Danny Wagner — whipped through the crunching tune about showbiz shallowness and the "Hollywood of hell." The "Tonight Show" performance came as the Frankenmuth-born quartet gears up for the release of its debut full-length album later this year on Republic/Universal. The group broke out in 2017 with the EP "Black Smoke Rising" and its pair of chart-topping rock hits, "Highway Tune" and … [Read more...] about Watch: Greta Van Fleet performs on Fallon in late-night TV debut

Baltimore-area business executives with intimate ties to Sinclair Broadcast Group have stepped in to help Sinclair win approval to buy two dozen Tribune television stations, a deal that would cement Sinclair’s spot as the nation’s biggest broadcaster.Hunt Valley-based Sinclair has proposed shedding TV stations in 11 markets to allow the merged company to stay under federal ownership limits as it seeks approval for the $3.9 billion deal.The company told the Federal Communications Commission that it has buyers for two of the biggest market stations owned by Tribune. It has outlined arrangements in which it would sell a Chicago station to the head of a Towson-based, multi-state auto dealership group largely owned by Sinclair’s chairman. And it would sell a New York station to a company controlled by the estate of the chairman’s mother.Sinclair would continue to reap advertising and other revenue from those stations and later have an option to buy them back.Such … [Read more...] about Friendly buyers step up to help Sinclair shed enough TV stations to appease regulators

Editor’s note: This is the first part in a two-part series examining the prosecution and exoneration of Michelle Murphy.Read Part 2: Released after 20 years in prison, Michelle Murphy trying to rebuild her lifeRelated story: Tulsa woman ruled innocent after 20 years in prisonRelated story: Who are the key players in 20-year-old murder case?Prosecutor Tim Harris stood before jurors deciding Michelle Murphy’s fate and told them police found someone’s blood near her slain baby’s body — blood he implied could be hers.“Ladies and gentleman, beyond a reasonable doubt this woman killed her child,” he told them.What Harris didn’t tell jurors is that as the trial started Nov. 14, 1995, he possessed a report from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation that said Murphy’s blood type was different than the type found at the scene. That test determined DNA found at the scene was not hers, contradicting Harris’ implication … [Read more...] about Records show mistakes, questionable evidence in woman’s overturned murder case

Editor’s note: This is the first part in a two-part series examining the prosecution and exoneration of Michelle Murphy.Read Part 2: Released after 20 years in prison, Michelle Murphy trying to rebuild her lifeRelated story: Tulsa woman ruled innocent after 20 years in prisonRelated story: Who are the key players in 20-year-old murder case?Prosecutor Tim Harris stood before jurors deciding Michelle Murphy’s fate and told them police found someone’s blood near her slain baby’s body — blood he implied could be hers.“Ladies and gentleman, beyond a reasonable doubt this woman killed her child,” he told them.What Harris didn’t tell jurors is that as the trial started Nov. 14, 1995, he possessed a report from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation that said Murphy’s blood type was different than the type found at the scene. That test determined DNA found at the scene was not hers, contradicting Harris’ implication … [Read more...] about Shadow of Doubt: Records show mistakes, questionable evidence in woman’s overturned murder case